 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pagina’s
...who can fail 1 There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. The shifts and turns The expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — To arrest the fleeting- imag-es, that fill The mirror... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 486 pagina’s
...fail ? There is a pleasure16 in poetic pains 285 Which only poets know. The shifts" and turns, The expedients and inventions multiform To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win, — To arrest the fleeting images that fill 290 The mirror... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1854 - 482 pagina’s
...fail ? There is a pleasure19 in poetic pains 265 Which only poets know. The shifts" and turns, The expedients and inventions multiform To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win, — To arrest the fleeting images that fill 290 The mirror... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1855 - 468 pagina’s
...correct, whatever may be their merit or demerit in other re>pects. That the practice of versi fica'tion materially improves the style for prose composition,...fleeting images, that fill The mirror of the mind.' will copiously enlarge the writer's stock of expressions, — will enable him to array his thoughts... | |
 | 1855 - 364 pagina’s
...down to it There was nothing here of " the pleasure " of " poetic pains," The shifts and tums, The expedients and inventions multiform To which' the mind resorts, in chase of terms Tho' apt, yet coy, and difficult to win. Besides he felt himself tethered to Milton, and forhidden... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pagina’s
...who can fail ! There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, The expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — To arrest the fleeting images that till The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pagina’s
...who can fail! There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, The expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — To arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pagina’s
...Horace, 11. 1. There is a pleasure in poetic pains, 285 Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, The expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in. chase of terms, Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win — To arrest the fleeting images, that fill 290 The mirror... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 512 pagina’s
...who can fail I There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know. The shifts and turns, Tb f expedients and inventions multiform, To which the mind resorts, in chase of terms Though apt, yet coy, and difficult to win— T'arrest the fleeting images, that fill The mirror of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 pagina’s
...will naturally revolt against inharmonious harshness in prose ; and the pains bestowed in searchmg for a variety of words of different lengths, quantities,...fleeting images, that fill The mirror of the mind.. will copiously enlarge the writer's stock of expressions, — will enable him to array his thoughts... | |
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T' arrest the fleeting images that fill The mirror of the mind, and hold them fast, And force them sit till he has pencil'd off A faithful likeness of the forms he views ; Then to dispose his copies with such art, That each may find its most propitious... 
